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The Dark Monk (US Edition) (A Hangman's Daughter Tale) Paperback – June 12, 2012

by Oliver Pötzsch (Author), Lee Chadeayne (Translator)

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BOOK 2 OF THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLING HANGMAN’S DAUGHTER SERIES

1660: Winter has settled thick over a sleepy village in the Bavarian Alps, ensuring every farmer and servant is indoors on the night a parish priest discovers he's been poisoned. As numbness creeps up his body, he summons the last of his strength to scratch a cryptic sign in the frost.

Following a trail of riddles, hangman Jakob Kuisl, his headstrong daughter, Magdalena, and the town physician’s son team up with the priest’s aristocratic sister to investigate. What they uncover will lead them back to the Crusades, unlocking a troubled history of internal church politics and sending them on a chase for a treasure of the Knights Templar.

But they’re not the only ones after the legendary fortune. A team of dangerous and mysterious monks is always close behind, tracking their every move, speaking Latin in the shadows, giving off a strange, intoxicating scent. And to throw the hangman off their trail, they have ensured he is tasked with capturing a band of thieves roving the countryside attacking solitary travellers and spreading panic.

Delivering on the promise of the international bestseller The Hangman’s Daughter, Oliver Pötzsch takes us on a whirlwind tour through the occult hiding places of Bavaria’s ancient monasteries. Once again based on prodigious historical research into Pötzsch’s family tree, The Dark Monk brings to life an unforgettable, compassionate hangman and his tenacious daughter, painting a robust tableau of a seventeenth-century Bavaria and quickening our pulses with a gripping, mesmerizing mystery.

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The brutality and ignorance of 17th-century Bavaria serves as the backdrop for Pötzsch's thrilling second whodunit featuring an unlikely trio of sleuths (after 2011's The Hangman's Daughter). When the parish priest, Andreas Koppmeyer, eats some poisoned doughnuts after sealing up a mysterious something in his church basement, he manages to scratch a mark on the frost covering a gravestone as he expires. Figuring out what that dying clue means and who doctored the pastries falls to Altenstadt hangman Jakob Kuisl; his daughter, Magdalena, an apprentice midwife; and her suitor, Simon Fronwieser, a doctor's son. Fronwieser links a Latin phrase seen in a crypt with the Templars, raising the possibility that Koppmeyer stumbled on a secret relating to that shadowy society. Meanwhile, the depredations of a gang of robbers threaten local commerce. Fans of Michael Gregorio's early 19th-century Prussian series (Unholy Awakening, etc.) will find a lot to enjoy.

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Originally published in Germany in 2009, this sequel to The Hangman’s Daughter begins in January 1660 with the murder of a priest and takes readers on a wild adventure to uncover the secret of a long-hidden (and possibly mythical) treasure of the Knights Templar. Potzsch does an excellent job of plunking the reader down in seventeenth-century Germany; Jakob Kuisl, the town hangman, and his daughter, Magdalena, don’t seem like made-up characters in a fictional landscape but, rather, like real people in a real place (in fact, the Kuisl family of executioners actually existed, and Potzsch is descended from them). The author supplies enough historical detail to give readers a good sense of the time and place but not too much to risk boring them with unnecessary details. Readers will also appreciate the nice balance between drama, suspense, and humor: this is a serious story, Potzsch seems to be saying, but it's OK to have some fun with it. At least two more books in the series are forthcoming, and they will be most welcome.

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Series: A Hangman's Daughter Tale (Book 2)
Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Mariner Books; 1st Printing edition (June 12, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0547807686
ISBN-13: 978-0547807683
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.2 x 8.2 inches
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Average Customer Review: 1,663 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #215,900 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #175 in Books > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > European > German
- #2240 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Historical > Thrillers
- #2691 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Historical > Mysteries

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B. Cobb

Terrible translating!

October 2, 2016

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I cannot give this book any higher rating, sadly not because of the author or the plot, but because of the atrocious translation job. "So tell me the truth, did you sleep with her?" "And where now, Madame Smarty Pants?" "Stop talking like a smart-ass." "Now, beat it. I've got a lot to do!" And that's just a smattering of the totally improbable phrases that you would EVER have heard in 17th century Germany. These completely modern phrases ruined the book for me. There should be more to being a good translator than simply translating the words. You should be required to understand the time period that you are translating.

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Kay

In love with this series

March 19, 2017

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I love that each of these stories in the series are stand alone novels. I have read the first and now the second book. The second (The Dark Monk) brought back glimpses of book one to inform the reader of previous information that was contained in The Hangman's Daughter. I can only assume that the others would do the same. I have grown attached to each of the main characters and feel as though I know them. The information provided at the end of the stories are excellent. The author provides us with a detailed journey into the Priest's Corner as well as information regarding the real people behind the characters. I look forward to following Simon, Magdalena, and Jakob Kuisl through many more adventures.

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Matt Mansfield

Tempting Templar Treasure Invokes Murder, Mayhem and Monkey Business

December 22, 2014

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Move over Indiana Jones! You've got rivals from 17th century Germany - of all places!

Second in the "Hangman's Daughter" quartet of caper-mysteries by Oscar Potzsch, "The Dark Monk" returns us to Schongau in Bavaria during a particularly snowy, cold January 1660. The situation is slightly improved from the conditions of thievery and dark doings two years earlier.

Jacob Kuisl, the deceptively smart hangman of Schongau, his fetching daughter Magdalena and the clever young would-be doctor, Simon Fronweiser, are plying their trades while engaged in a colorful discovery of pharmacology.

Sprinkled throughout is an entertaining and fun depiction of medical knowledge for that period: various herbs and plants, including the unwitting use of aspirin in the form of willow bark to relieve a mysterious illness killing many of the local citizens.

But... hold on. There's a lot more going on when a local priest dies under suspicious circumstances literally pointing to an enigmatic hint on a coffin in a crypt. Oh, yeah!

Before long a lot of people, Including the Kuisls, Simon, a mysterious merchant woman with seductive appeal to Simon (much to Magdalena's ire and jealousy), are chasing after the lost fabulous treasure of the Knights Templar.

Complicating matters are bands of robbers, primarily displaced soldiers from the 30 Years War (1618 - 1648) that put an end to the Holy Roman Empire, are still lurking about and interrupting trade and travelers between towns along the snowy paths.

But is it just these thieves? Before long, it appears that bishops, abbots and monks from various Jesuit and Franciscan orders are in hot pursuit. Ah, nothing like relics to warm the blood on a frosty night!

Very entertaining are Brother Jakobus who knows how to show a girl a good time and Abbot Augustin Bonenmayr with a real edifice complex and a born promoter who's not afraid to set the world on fire. I'm not sure Spielberg could have outdone some of the antics and settings.

Compared to the first book of the series (see my Amazon review for "The Hangman's Daughter" dated March 10, 2014 - "Twisty Tale of Bavarian Dark Deeds"), this one is more tightly written while preserving consistency with the setting, characters and conditions. Potzsch and co-author, Lee Chadeayne, seem more comfortable with the story and do a good job of shifting the narrative among the characters to keep up a fast and engaging pace.

So, settle into a comfy armchair, pull up a blanket and take a journey back about 350 years when life was simpler...or was it?

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James Horlan

Should Have Been Just One Book

January 11, 2015

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I tried, I really did. I made it through two books of this series and 9% of the third one, but I couldn't make it. Some of it was just so repetitive that it made me want to scream. The hangman, who is always right about everything, is reviled and shunned......as we heard every five pages or so, over and over. The daughter, a self-centered headstrong tomboy, can't marry her short, dandy-ish almost doctor "boyfriend"......as we heard about every time they were in the same scene, and many times they weren't. This leaves aside that Magdalena is the title character, but is a minor supporting character in the first book and at best third here.

The mysteries themselves were pretty interesting, and the only regret I'm having is my wondering if the town's clerk (the real ruler) is going to be the primary antagonist at some point. But I'll always have to wonder.

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